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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, A Toltec Wisdom Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  633 reviews
Sales Rank: 277
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 168
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 1878424505
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.792
EAN: 9781878424501
ASIN: 1878424505
Publication Date: January 15, 2001
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Sit at the foot of a native elder and listen as great wisdom of days long past is passed down. In The Four Agreements shamanic teacher and healer Don Miguel Ruiz exposes self-limiting beliefs and presents a simple yet effective code of personal conduct learned from his Toltec ancestors. Full of grace and simple truth, this handsomely designed book makes a lovely gift for anyone making an elementary change in life, and it reads in a voice that you would expect from an indigenous shaman. The four agreements are these: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best. It's the how and why one should do these things that make The Four Agreements worth reading and remembering. --P. Randall Cohan
Book Description
Featured in the premiere issue of O: The Oprah Magazine and on Oprah's Favorite Things 2000 segment, The Four Agreements reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob people of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements -- be impeccable with your word, don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, always do your best -- offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform life into a new experience of freedom, love, and true happiness. This jacketed linen-bound hardcover gift edition features two-color printing and a silk ribbon marker.
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 4 Agreements on CD - great for the ride in to work May 15, 2008
I've read the book before, and bought the CDs because I wanted to listen to them on the way in to work. It's a great way to start the day and keep the principles of the book in the forefront of my mind. The narration is fairly well done, and the pace is just right.
Life changing! May 13, 2008
I was compelled to pick up this book a few years ago at a bookstore without knowing anything about it at all, and I rarely purchase books. I didn't know why then but after I read it I knew why. No book has inspired me or taught me like this one. I have referred back to it many times over the years. This, along, with "The Mastery of Love" by the same author have been such a positive changing force in my life that I am forever grateful for stumbling on them.
The Four Agreements: Review May 5, 2008
This book is a good read. The four agreements are very, very useful for anyone. There is a spiritual underlying theme, but if you are not religious, like I am not....just take the jewels from the book and disregard the rest.
I strongly recommend this book to everyone. I believe, everyone and I mean everyone in the world should read this book. If everyone did the four agreements, there would be a lot less conflict in the world.
 What a Rude Joke May 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book is disappointing on many levels. If your life is so shallow that you need to hear some of the common sense and simple views in this book, you are already in trouble. You could learn more from Buddha and Jesus of Nazareth.
And what is this garbage about Toltec wisdom? The Toltecs were an extremely aggressive and expansionistic society in MesoAmerican history. Although they left a number of monuments and numerous glyphs at cities like Chitzen Itza (which is as Mayan as Toltec), they were hardly peace-loving group from whom I would draw deep wisdom for everyday life.
May I suggest probing through Zen Buddhism for more enlightenment or the Gospel accounts associated with Jesus of Nazareth. I have found far more richness and depth.
If you are bent on being "free" in your "spirit" and making your own morality and rules then maybe you should read Nietzsche for that line of absurdity. At least, he has more intellectual prowess to offer. Again, this is a book does not offer any new, deep, spiritual wisdom. Indeed, it's just a simple read on four dynamics that you might agree with in a world without restraint. Sorry, this does not measure up to anything astounding.
Simple but Great and life changing Book May 2, 2008
I wish I had read this book years ago. Life would not have been so hard to live.
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